Hello there. I was brought into metal liking pantera and metallica a couple years ago and my tastes have evolved since then. I went through my stage of loving job for a buttcowboy and as period blood runs black. i look back on it in disgust but it was well worth it because thats how i became aquainted with real death metal bands. But i could still use some help finding great new ones. As you already read i pretty much DESPISE all deathcore bands with the exception of Glass Casket, Despised Icon(pun hehe), and Bring me the horizon...just kidding about that last one, they, bring me the whorizon inhale black cock into their british asses. And while i highly respect them, i dont like morbid angel, suffocation(only heard their newest album) or Cannibal Coprse. Here are a list of D-metal bands im into and why:

Amon Amarth- Super heavy melodic viking metal. nuff said.

Beneath The Massacre-Super fast brutal death with some good breakdowns.

Death- Chuck(RIP) had an impeccable style and they were so constantly evolving.

Decapitated- Groovy ass tech death.

Decrepit Birth- I like their new shit because it "mixes melody and brutality"

The Faceless- They have amazing melody buried under dissonant heavinesss.

As for a personal suggestion, you might want to try out Hypocrisy (swe). Their first two albums are pure old-school death metal with a dark atmosphere while their subsequent albums evolved into a more atmospheric and melodic direction before returning to a more death metal stance on their lastest album, Virus.

Though as a suggestion I would check out Pestilence, Iniquity, and Morgoth. Pestilence reminds me a lot of Death in their evolution though they took it a step further into the cosmic realms that Death explored on the last two tracks on Human - Cosmic Sea and Vacant Planets. Iniquity's Serenadium and Grime albums are two of the catchiest slabs of destruction ever recorded - listen to Son of Cosmos and tell me that riff isn't stuck in your head forever. Morgoth is just plain fucking weird and unique.

Whoukr is an interesting concotion of breakbeat and death metal. It's very weird actually. You can't really even say it's death metal. The band has been compared with an electronic genre called breakcore due to the use of breakbeats. However, just give it a listen, very interesting.

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